The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
IN THE CENTRE MARKET.
Prices Of Meats, Vegetables, Fish, nm
Eruits.


Prices OF Meats, Vegetables, Fish, and
Fruits.
The Centre Market looked bright and
fresh this morning. One would hardly
think we were near Christmas to see the
fruit and vegetables at some of the
stands. Business has been very good
all week and prices fair, and the supply
Of everything is equal to the demand.
The meat market is steady with prime
rib roasis at 20 cents II pound Porter
house steak, choice cut, is worth 20, while
90 cents will buy an excellent sirloin
steak. Corned beef brings from 8 to 121
cents u pound. John II. Kelly in the
Ninth street wing has some very fine
young lamb, which he sells the chops at
20 to % cents pound, and the hind
quarter from Is to is cents. Veal chops
bring from 10 to 20 cents u pound and
beef tongues from 80 to GO cents each.
Fresh pork and sausage bring 12i
cents pound, salt pork 10 cents and
head-cheese 12t cents.
White Brothers sell fine turkeys at
l2l to - cents pound, dressed chickens
10 TO IL, ducks 20 cents TO 81 pair,
pheasants 81 to sl.25, partridges $3.50 u
dozen, and rabbits 70 to 20 cents each.
The stand of Engel Brothers looks
like spring with the many fruits and
vegetables. New Florida tomatoes,
arc worth 40 cents peck, Flor
ida cucumbers 10 cents, cymblings
are the same price and egg plants raised
In Florida bring all the way from Is to
80 cents each according to size. New
string beans are worth 20 cents a / peck,
cabbage is scarce and brings 10 to 20
cents head, while fine lettuce is worth
TO 10 cents. Good white potatoes sell
for 35 to 40 cents peck and sweet
potatoes 40 cents.
The celery crop is not so good nor
plenty as last season, but verv fair cel-
cry brings 8 to 10 cents bunch. Green
gumbo or okra is 90 cents dozen. The
cucumbers raised in hot houses in this
neighborhood bring % to 40 cents each,
and radishes raised in the same place are
worth 1Ocents a bunch. Knoll celery is
worth 10 cents bunch Doucct is worth
Is cents Il quart, and Brussels sprouts
35 cents for the same quantity. Four
punches of watercress cost % cents.
Escarol and endive for salads, cents
head. Beets sell for 80 cents u peck.
White onions, 81, and yellow onions 40
to so cents peck. Fresh mint is 10
tclltS u DlHcn, tllu sdlsltN u 10 10 CcltS.
Tho best cranberries, II to 10 cents a
quart. Fresh mushrooms, cultivated,
sell very readily for Sl.50 pound.
Catawba grapes bring 80 cents a box
and Malagas 20 to % cents ii pound.
Pineapples, very large, 25 TO 40 cents
each. Pomegranates 10 cents each. APP
pies are very fine this season though
not very plenty, and sell from so to 80
cents a peck. Oranges bring 80 to 40
cents a dozen and bananas % to 80 cents.
Tangerines and mandarins are very
scarce and consequently dear; the for
mer sell for 40 cents dozen, the latter
so cents.
The fish market is brisk and the
catch during the week quite large.
Boiling rock sell for % cents pound,
pure rock 10, large black bass Is, small
bass l2i, large white fish 20, small white
fish 10, straw bcrry perch l5, white perch
10, fresh trout l5, Holsters 10, halibut 20
fresh cod, very fine, 10; salmon 50,
smelts 12s, pickerel l2l, founders 10,
pan fish % cents bunch, and large
Spanish mackerel 90 cents each.